Debra DeLee, Debra Shushan, MK Merav Michaeli, Nidal Fuqaha, and Lara Friedman discuss the formalization of annexation. Americans for Peace Now's panel discussion at J Street's National Conference April 15, 2018.
APN hosted a briefing call Tuesday, April 10th, at 1:00
pm EST with veteran Israeli political columnist Akiva Eldar.
Eldar discussed the current Israel-Gaza crisis, Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing and legal challenges, Israel-US relations, and other political topics.
Another in a series of episodes drawing on Ori Nir's experience in Israel and the West Bank in February with APN's Study Tour and with the Encounter program.
This episode is based on a conversation that members of APN's Board of Directors had with with Khalil Shikaki, who has previously been featured on PeaceCast.
We met at his Ramallah office where he analyzed his most recent polling data and spoke about Palestinian politics. This edited-down version focuses on Shikaki's characterization and analysis of the decline of Palestinian secular nationalism. Shikaki's talk follows a short introduction by Ori and Stephanie Breitsman, who manages APN's programming.
PeaceCast is back after a long hiatus. Ori Nir is back from
Israel and the West Bank. Debra Shushan is back from AIPAC's policy conference in DC.
In this episode, Ori and Debra talk about AIPAC, about APN's Israel Study Tour, and about the Encounter program that Ori attended in February in Israel.
The featured segment of the episode is an edited version of a conversation that APN's Board of Directors had at Haaretz's office in Tel Aviv with Editor in Chief Aluf Benn.
Leading Palestinian pollster and scholar Khalil Shikaki, in a
conversation from his Ramallah office, reviewing key challenges facing Palestinians and their leaders, and
explaining the dwindling support among West Bank and Gaza Palestinians -- particularly the younger generation
-- for the creation of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state.
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On Thursday January 11, 2018, APN hosted leading Palestinian political scholar and pollster
Khalil Shikaki for a briefing call on current challenges facing the Palestinians and on trends in Palestinian
public opinion.
In Arabic, Fauda means chaos. It's also the name of a popular
Israeli TV series that has made it on the international scene. Fauda's co-creator Avi Issacharoff, an Israeli
journalist, talks about the show's surprising success, about the message that he and his co-creator Lior Raz are
trying to convey to the Israeli audience and to the world through the show, and about the odd reactions to
Fauda's second season's publicity campaign.
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On December 7th, 2017, APN hosted former US consul General in
Jerusalem, Jacob (Jake) Walles. Ambassador Walles spoke about the repercussions of President Trump’s recognition
of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and his decision to start preparations for transferring America’s Israel
embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Jacob Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism. Throughout his 35-year career in the foreign service, he was U.S. ambassador to Tunisia (2012 to 2015), consul general and chief of mission in Jerusalem (2005 to 2009), and served as senior adviser in the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism (2015 to 2017). During his long career at the State Department, Walles was actively involved in Middle East peace negotiations, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991 and continuing through the Obama administration.
On December 7th, 2017, APN hosted former US consul General in Jerusalem, Jacob (Jake)
Walles. Ambassador Walles spoke about the repercussions of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital and his decision to start preparations for transferring America’s Israel embassy from Tel Aviv
to Jerusalem.
As a part of our series on the first intifada, as its 30th anniversary approaches, this episode features a
conversation with Mubarak Awad, the Palestinian-American who in the mid-1980s returned to Jerusalem, determined to
lead a revolution, to get the Palestinians to shift from armed struggle to nonviolence. Awad got in trouble with
both the
Israeli authorities, which ended up deporting him, and with
the PLO, which at first viewed him as a sellout, a collaborator and a traitor, but ended up embracing and
adopting many of the methods he advocated.
Awad is the founder and director of Nonviolence International.